Scope and Contents New Year's Eve in Bismarck, North Dakota. Music by Bryan Beaumont Hays [set] to a poem of Kathleen Norris. Chamber orchestra with mezzo-soprano soloist. Orchestra: B-flat clarinet; 2 bassoons; 6 violins; violoncello; piano; harp. Percussion: bass drum; hi-hat & drum; glock; high wood blocks. Unbound manuscript score. Flying in before snow closed the airport waiting for a way out. Drinking at the Patterson, peppermint schnapps for the season, the town, the storm. B-flat clarinet...

Scope and Contents Requiem for a bride : six poems by D.H. Lawrence. Set to music by [Henry Bryan Hays]. For baritone and six instruments: 1 flute; 1 clarinet in A; 1 trumpet in C; 1 trombone; 1 violin; 1 cello. SONGS: 1. Suspense -- 2. The Bride -- 3. Sorrow -- 4. Silence -- 5. Brooding Grief -- 6. Troth with the Dead. Note on cover: Permission granted 30th November 1977 by Laurence Pollinger Limited, Literary Executor to the Lawrence Estate. Note laid in: In memory of my mother, Lucy Ellis Beaumont...